Campus Watch

ASSOCIATED PRESS, Sept. 23 — Officials at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison have refused to recognize or fund the UW Roman
Catholic Foundation as a registered student organization.

The foundation’s application for
recognition was rejected last month because only three of the foundation’s 12
board members are students. An aide to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said
Sept. 23 that the group could be recognized if it restructures its board, the
Associated Press reported.

In a move that the Roman Catholic
Foundation said was initiated prior to the university’s decision to deny it
application, the foundation has filed a complaint with the civil rights
decision of the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that the university has
discriminated against the Catholic student group.

Foundation spokesman Tim Kruse
said, “To us, this is just the latest in a series of disingenuous attempts by
the university to hide under policy and procedures that were only intended so
that they could discriminate against a religious viewpoint.”

A ‘Great’ Start

SAN DIEGO
UNION-TRIBUNE,
Sept. 22 — What’s the best way to launch a new
Catholic college? Pray the Rosary.

That’s the way students and
instructors kicked off the first day of classes Sept. 21 at newly opened John
Paul the GreatCatholicUniversity in San Diego.

According to the Union-Tribune, the new college has “a
commitment to orthodox Church teachings and the
mission of taking their faith into business and media — the two inaugural
majors.”

Currently, classes are held at a
local church and students are living in an apartment complex, with plans for a
campus to be built eventually.

But Derry Connolly, John Paul the Great’s president, said the university’s bottom line won’t
be the grandeur of its buildings or even the quality of its degrees.

Said Connolly, “I think the
measure of our success is how well our students will know the Lord.”

Beers Wth
the Bishop

GEORGE WASHINGTON
UNIVERSITY HATCHET, Sept. 25 — Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington was the featured speaker at a Sept. 21
Theology on Tap session at GeorgeWashingtonUniversity.

Archbishop Wuerl,
who spoke to a packed audience at the Alumni House on the university’s Washington campus,
discussed Church teachings about stem-cell research, war and Islam with
students.

University President Stephen Joel
Trachtenberg attended the event and said it demonstrated that religion is
flourishing on campus, the Hatchet
reported.

“It is interesting that people
think that this is a secular time,” Trachtenberg said. “But, if they take time
to check it out, there is more participation in the different faiths.”

On Sept. 13, Georgia Gov. Sonny
Perdue issued a proclamation commending Clements’ contribution to founding the
one-year-old institution, which is the state’s first residential Catholic
college, according to the Georgia
daily.

Clements was also named last month
as the recipient of the National Catholic Educational Association’s St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton Award. The award, the association’s highest honor,
recognizes significant philanthropic or leadership contributions to Catholic
education.

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